PISTOLS DEMANDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1939, Page 10

PISTOLS DEMANDED

WOMAN THREATENED

I A 17-year-old errand boy who appeared at Ealing recently on a menaces I charge was said to have mistaken a j Miss Jean Muir for the film actress of the same name. George Edward Flood, of Weymouth Terrace, Shoreditch, was remanded in custody for a week, charged with sending a letter to Miss Muir demanding by menaces two loaded automatic pistols and extra ammunition. Detective-Sergeant Davison said that on Saturday, when he saw Flood detained at a house in Kerrison Road, Ealing, the boy was asked about a letter he had brought to tha house, and he said: "A .man at Leadenhall Market asked me to deliver it."

The officer read the letter, which was headed "Protective Assurance Syndicate." It said: "Give the bearer the said goods in a. parcel. The bearer must not see the contents."

Flood was told that the letter was in similar handwriting to one received on February 2, which, said the officer, bore the same heading and was marked "official." This letter, stated Sergeant Davison, read:

"Dear Madam,—We' Regret having to inform you that you are given the choice of either producing two fullyloaded automatics with extra ammunition or suffering serious facial injury. A messenger will call at your place of residence at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, bearing a note from us. To inform the police would invite th«